Motion Planning for a Mobile Manipultor Based on Joint Motions for Error Recovery

This paper describes motion planning for a mobile manipulator which works in real environment. Mobile manipulators that can manipulate an object was developed up to now. We assume that object grasping is not restricted to just one grasp way and robot can move freely as far as it is in its operational area of the object. This paper proposes the motion planning for object grasping under the previous explained conditions. There are two major issues to detect the robot pose. The first problem is pose error of the robot hand. The second problem is kinematical redundancy of the mobile manipulator. The pose is evaluated from the amount of joint motions for recovery of hand pose error. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method.